Appreciation of Film

The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘Film Studies’.Showing how film societies operated and the lasting impression they made on film culture, The Appreciation of Film details the history of film education in Britain. The book illuminates the changing relationship between volunteer-run societies and professionalised agencies promoting film art such as festivals, specialist commercial distributors and public bodies such as the British Film Institute.Drawing on original archival research and oral history interviews the book acknowledges the vigour and dedication of volunteer film society activists and presents contemporary readers with a record of their achievement.Written in an accessible style, this is a study of 16mm projectors, associational life and the making of film culture in Britain. It reclaims the marginalised civic cinephilia of volunteer film society activists whilst providing an alternative narrative of the emergence of film study in Britain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-05-03
Mått156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Studies in Film History
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Exeter
ISBN9780859898881
UtmärkelserWinner of Finalist Theatre Library Awards August 2017 (United States)

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Film inom Kultur
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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Enthusiasm and Civic Duty: The Emergence of the Film Society Movement2 The Postwar Transformation of the Film Society Movement3 Popularising Film Appreciation: Roger Manvell’s Film4 The British Film Institute, the Film Archive and Film Society Programming5 Making the World Our Home: Affirmative Internationalism and Film Societies6 Film Society Criticism, Middlebrow Taste and New Cinemas7 Film Societies, Universities and the Emergence of Film StudiesConclusion: What Was Film Appreciation?NotesBibliographyIndex

‘This is an interesting project, based on thorough research, dealing with a topic that deserves to be better known and better documented.’ (Professor Andrew Higson, Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York) ‘This book serves as a valuable companion to an emerging literature on the history of film studies, both internationally and specifically within Britain.’ (Professor Richard Maltby, Dept. of Screen and Media, Flinders University)